"The title of Andrew Pekler's new album already discloses its instrumentation. It refers to his chosen field of action, it announces a method and offers motif and imagination. On his two previous albums (released on the Scape label) Pekler led his listeners on a random walk through the clear and mysterious air of a metropolis at midnight. There he met with a form of jazz one may be familiar with from French films of the 1950s. He picked up this music´s narrative and re-told to the listener by adding a lively tinge of digital contrasts. Those two albums may be taken as necessary starting points for him to arrive at "Strings And Feedback". The ten tracks on this new album embark on an excursion into the direct vicinity of sounds and into the inner life of the mixing desk. It is here where sounds are organized, where they all must pass through, that Pekler develops his breathtaking signal flow. Calm and patient he opens up the material from the inside and self-confidently develops a music consisting of only very few essential elements." (label info)